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Kibes glaiiduliferuni 



A stout compact shrub about 5 feet high, growing in thick 

 clumps, the ends of the branches somewhat drooping: old bark 

 gray, somewhat flaky, growing parts yellowish, pubescent and 

 glandular: without prickles; the sharp thorns solitary, rather 

 slender, 3'ellowish, about 8 mm. long: leaves somewhat variable 

 in size, the largest about 2.5 cm. long including the very slender 

 petiole which equals the blade; the blade broader than long, 3-5 

 parted, the divisions cuneate, slightly 3-lobed or almost entire, 

 blunt; both petiole and blade pubescent with short hairs as well 

 as glandular: the flowers single or in pairs, the calyx appar- 

 ently white or creamy, cylindrical, 4 mm. long, 2 mm. wide, 

 strongly pubescent with somewhat tangled hairs, the ob- 

 long obtuse lobes a little longer than the tube: petals white or 

 perhaps pinkish, quadrate-oblong, merely a little rounded at the 

 apex, I mm. shorter than the calyx: filaments subulate; anthers 

 oblong, barely i mm. long, equal with the petals or extending 

 slightly beyond them: pistil stout, 2 mm. long, style entire, the 

 stigmatose end apparently narrowed: ovary densely glandular 

 with long-stalked glands; berry about 7 mm. in diameter, gland- 

 ular with long-stalked glands as well as sparingly pubescent 

 with short hairs. 



The type is no. 8005, collected June 9, 1905, on the hills 

 near the railroad at Yreka, Siskiyou county, California. It was 

 supposed to be R. velutinum Greene, the type of which came 

 from that region, but a little examination showed that it is 

 something very different. The flower characters are about the 

 same, but there is a wide difference in the fruit, that of veluti- 

 num being hardly half the size, velvety pubescent and not gland- 

 ular. Judging from the meager description of R. brachyanthum 

 in Bot. Cal. 1: 205, it is a near relative of that species; but that 

 is described as having the calyx "campanulate or barely cylin- 

 draceous," and the internal structure of the flower is not men- 

 tioned. It is said to be confined to the Great Basin. 



Our specimens were collected with practically full formed 

 but uncolored fruit bearing the persistent flower, from which the 

 above description was drawn. 



